Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr.is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He is the founder of the organizations that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. Jackson was also the host of Both Sides with Jesse Jackson on CNN from 1992 to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth8 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Jesse Jackson quotes about
The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.
There are more police here than people. They should go catch the criminals and set the people free.
I have nothing to do with our soldiers being there, ... do something to help get them out.
He exudes a great sense of confidence in the jury as being fair. Michael anxiously awaits the jury's verdict, but anticipates acquittal.
First of all, Jessica Lynch deserves all the treatment that she is getting. She was a victim of Iraq, and the Army built around her this caricature of American bravado. They said she was shot and stabbed and shot to the last bullet, and she did not say that, and that did not happen. But they sought to use her as a propaganda tool for American bravado.
He repeated that incendiary comparison a few days later, adding the ugly allegation that when churches were contacted about helping some of the victims, the first thing they wanted to know was, ''Are they black or white?
I hope that we've done something to facilitate a detente on threatening rhetoric,
Robertson later said he meant a regime change, not an assassination, ... It's fair to say, however, that most Americans disagree with what Rev. Robertson said.
The RUF must disarm voluntarily, and immediately, or be made to disarm involuntarily,
I think the pain is subsiding. The back is getting better.
There's no excuse for it all and they should be dealt with immediately.
Face it, he is embarrassed by whatever happened, however one defines inappropriate, and Hillary's had to face the humiliation of it all, ... and their marriage will survive this.
I don't think those messages really get through. I think people know this demonstration is about the war in Iraq, and I think that theme overrides any other messages that may be off-message. You get what I'm saying? I think at every peace demonstration you have many voices, but I think the central message is about the war in Iraq.
Just like Rosa Parks, Cindy Sheehan has triggered a public policy debate that's bigger than her as a personality,